Epidemic profile of the amputee patients from Lar Escola São Francisco: comparison study between 3 different period
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-0190.v10i2a102443Keywords:
Amputation, Rehabilitation, Epidemiology, ProsthesesAbstract
This is a retrospective study of 262 files on amputee outpatients, treated at Lar Escola São Francisco, São Paulo, from January 1998 to December 2002, with the purpose to map the epidemiological profile of the service. Predominantly, 71 % of amputations were observed on male patients, in which lower limb amputation represented 85,9 %, and the prevalence of amputation above the knee was 52,4%. The main cause for amputation on patients older than 50 years old was vascular etiology, which represented 72,9 %. It was observed a delay in the beginning of the rehabilitation process, with a reported treatment duration averaging 19,6 months, and reporting a mean treatment time of 10,7 months, which was shown to be greater than the one related at the reviewed literature. Besides, 25,2 % of the patients acquires prostheses. Furthermore, we correlated our data with 2 previous studies with the same rehabilitation service, with the purpose to compare the results observed in 3 different periods, and we observed a progress in the process of the amputee patients’ rehabilitation treated in our Institution.
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